Half-hour outages impacted iCloud and App Store users

Apple endured multiple outages across its online services on Monday, issues that affected iCloud, the App Store, Mac App Store, and other areas.Notifications on the Apple Support System Status page advise of a total of ten issues that occurred at roughly the same period of time. Of the ten items, eight are listed as 'issues' while two are deemed to be 'outages,' with all marked as resolved by Apple's support teams.The two outages affected the App Store and the Mac App Store, and took place between 1:05pm and 1:38pm eastern time. On both listings, Apple advises 'some users were affected,' and that 'this service may have been slow or unavailable.' Read more...